Senior Portfolio and Data Analytics Officer at the African Development Bank Group (AfDB) Full Time

Job Title: Senior Portfolio and Data Analytics Officer

Position Number: 50097570
Location: Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire
Position Grade: PL5

The Complex

• The President, plans, supervises, and manages the business of the Bank Group. Under the direction of the Boards of Directors, the President conducts the business of the Bank and the African Development Fund and manages operations and activities in accordance with the Agreements establishing the African Development Bank and the African Development Fund. The President supervises several Departments and Units including Office of the President; Independent Development Evaluation Department; Integrity and Anti-Corruption Department; Compliance Review and Mediation Unit; Secretariat to the Sanctions Appeals Board; Administrative Tribunal; Office of the Auditor General; Group Risk Management Directorate; General Counsel and Legal Services Department; Communication and External Relations Department; Staff Integrity and Ethics Office and Office of the Secretary-General & General Secretariat.

The Hiring Department / Division

• The Africa Investment Forum Unit in The Office of the President assists the President in planning, supervising and managing the business of the Africa Investment Forum activities. Africa Investment Forum is a multi-stakeholder, multi-disciplinary platform dedicated to advancing private and public-private-partnership projects to bankable stages, raising capital, and accelerating the financial closure of deals and tracking those investments.
• The Africa Investment Forum is Africa’s investment marketplace, through which the African Development Bank, along with its partners, is structuring deals, screening, credit enhancing projects, attracting investors, and facilitating transactions to close Africa’s investment gaps.
• The Africa Investment Forum’s objectives are to reduce intermediation costs, improve the quality of project information and documentation, and increase active and productive engagements between African governments and the private sector as well as increase regional integration. The Africa Investment Forum offers investors access to a structured platform offering bankable, de-risked projects within an enabling environment.
• The Africa Investment Forum facilitates awareness-raising about the investment opportunities in Africa for international investors, social impact investors, institutional investors (pension funds, sovereign wealth funds, and others) both local and global. It provides an opportunity for the Africa Investment Forum partners to determine the investment needs of these various categories of investors facilitate tailored investible structures and showcase Africa’s investment successes and enabling policies that would be attractive to these various classes of investors who are looking to deploy funds in Africa.
• The AIF as a marketplace brings together the African Development Bank, global multilateral financial institutions and regional financial institutions to de-risk investments at scale, to focus their investment products on agreed key transformative transactions to scale up and accelerate Africa’s investment opportunities.
• The Africa Investment Forum will continuously track the implementation of commitments made at the annual event to ensure transactions reach financial close and policies and bottlenecks to facilitate Africa Investment Forum projects are cleared and implemented.

The PoSITION

• The Senior Portfolio and Data Analytics Officer will primarily be responsible for maintaining a credible portfolio of AIF Pipeline, Origination and Boardroom deals through robust monitoring and reporting. The incumbent will also backstop AIF Officers in managing the deal tracker, generating analytical portfolio and deal reports, and performing periodic reviews of the AIF portfolio.

Key Functions

Under the general guidance and supervision of the Senior Director, the Senior Portfolio and Data Analytics Officer will perform the following duties:

• Actively manage the AIF Master Deal Tracker database, ensure quality assurance and data integrity.
• Prepare and provide baseline portfolio reports, timely portfolio dashboards, monthly portfolio reports and ad-hoc reports for AIF management and AIF stakeholders as necessary.
• Conduct periodic portfolio reviews, providing quantitative and qualitative analysis of the AIF portfolio.
• Generate data to support the drafting of project briefs, periodic board reports and annual reports.
• Support the development and upgrading of AIF portfolio management methodologies, management tools and systems.
• Backstop AIF transactions team in the origination process: conduct routine KYC due diligence on deal sponsors; support the curation of Boardroom Packs and project documentation for AIF Deal Reviews, Boardrooms, Curated B2B Sessions, and data for the AIF Deal Gallery.
• Leverage technology to ensure optimization of the Deal Tracker database to generate analytical reports on demand.
• Manage the AIF Portfolio Collaboration Space and the interaction of portfolio data among AIF’s digital tools including inter alia the AIF Website, Digital Platform, Investor Blast, and the Management Information System (MIS) Tool.
• Work in collaboration with AIF partners, project sponsors, and Bank Sector and Regional complexes to support the advancement of deals from origination to financial close.
• Help build a robust database of the various categories of investors and their investment
  policy/plans in Africa’s private sector, their investment flows in Africa to date, and subsequently use that information to proactively match them to investable solutions/pipeline of investments and or project structures.
• Carry out any other task entrusted by the management of the unit.

Competencies (Skills, Experience, and Knowledge)

• Minimum of a Master’s Degree in Finance, Financial Engineering, Risk Management, Mathematics, Statistics, Data Analytics, Economics, Development Finance, Business Administration, or related discipline.
• Have a minimum of five (5) years professional experience in portfolio management, banking, data analytics, or related field.
• Excellent organizational, analytical, and problem-solving skills. High-level proficiency in data management, demonstrated quantitative analysis and analytical skills.
• Relevant work experience in multilateral development institution in Africa and/or specialized experience in similar organization/s would be considered an advantage.
• Experience in the private sector will be an added advantage, especially demonstrable knowledge of key economic developments and market trends in Africa.
• Ability to make clear and concise presentation when required.
• Ability to produce innovative, creative, and structured approaches to deal tracker activities to enhance performance and value-add to the AIF and its stakeholders.
• Excellent problem-solving skills, application of business knowledge to the resolution of problems and identifies solutions to the benefit of the client (internal and external) and the organization.
• Excellent organizational, administrative, and time management skills.
• Proven ability to work with limited supervision, deliver under pressure and meet tight deadlines.
• Be able to communicate effectively (written and oral) in English or French preferably with a good working knowledge of the other language; proficiency in the two working languages of the Bank (English and French) would be an added advantage.
• Proficient in the use of common MS Office applications (Word, Excel, PowerPoint), statistics tools, preferably in combination with knowledge and experience of SAP operations.

Application Closing Date
26th November, 2023.